Dungeons of Daggorath

Back in the early 80′s, I received a TRS-80 for Christmas. I wasn’t too much
into programming then, but I was into computer games. If it weren’t for the
game cartridges for the 80, I probably never would have used it. Anyway,
one game in particular had me entertained for countless hours, “Dungeons of
Daggorath.” I LOVE rpg’s. I’m not sure why maybe it was playing “Resident
Evil 2″, but all of a sudden I had the urge to at least find out how that
game ended. Since I no longer have my Trash-80, I’m counting on someone from
this group to help me out…

I got to the very last level defeated the “fake” Wizard twice I think and
was all set to take on the “real” Wizard and clean up the Dungeon for good.
Now, I haven’t played the game in about 15 years so all of this is kind of
sketchy, but here’s the question: I remember that I just couldn’t kill the
Wizard no matter how many times I nailed him with one of I think the most
powerful of the rings. I’m assuming the game was going to end there am I
right?, so what I’d really appreciate someone telling me is how to beat the
actual Wiz, and what happens ending sequence? afterwards. Please help if you
can!

>I got to the very last level defeated the “fake” Wizard twice I think and
>was all set to take on the “real” Wizard and clean up the Dungeon for good….
> I remember that I just couldn’t kill the Wizard no matter how many times I
nailed
> him with one of I think the most powerful of the rings. I’m assuming the
game
>was going to end there am I right?, so what I’d really appreciate someone
telling
> me is how to beat the actual Wiz, and what happens ending sequence?
>afterwards.

There’s no trick to beating the real Wizard; you just have to keep
pounding away at him. There’s a long corridor on the bottom level,
and it’s fairly easy to set yourself up in this corridor in such a way
that you can get in several shots while the Wizard approaches you,
then run to the other end of the corridor and repeat.

The game does end when you kill the real Wizard, and there’s a single
victory screen. It’s like the defeat screen, except that the pictured
wizard has a star on his/her wand in place of a moon, and the caption
is, “Destiny salutes the birth of a new Wizard” or something close to
this; I last played and won the game in 1984.

On Meredith Dixon, Meredith DixonSMTP:dixonm [at] ACCESS [dot] MOUNTAIN [dot] NET
wrote:
> On 19 Feb 1998 19:30:38 GMT, me [at] thishost [dot] thisdomain NewNTUser wrote:
>
> >I got to the very last level defeated the “fake” Wizard twice I
think and
> >was all set to take on the “real” Wizard and clean up the Dungeon for
good….
> > I remember that I just couldn’t kill the Wizard no matter how many
times I
> nailed
> > him with one of I think the most powerful of the rings. I’m
assuming the
> game
> >was going to end there am I right?, so what I’d really appreciate
someone
> telling
> > me is how to beat the actual Wiz, and what happens ending
sequence?
> >afterwards.
>
> There’s no trick to beating the real Wizard; you just have to keep
> pounding away at him. There’s a long corridor on the bottom level,
> and it’s fairly easy to set yourself up in this corridor in such a way
> that you can get in several shots while the Wizard approaches you,
> then run to the other end of the corridor and repeat.
>
> The game does end when you kill the real Wizard, and there’s a single
> victory screen. It’s like the defeat screen, except that the pictured
> wizard has a star on his/her wand in place of a moon, and the caption
> is, “Destiny salutes the birth of a new Wizard” or something close to
> this; I last played and won the game in 1984.
>
> Meredith Dixon
> dixonm [at] access [dot] mountain [dot] net

Yes, there is a “trick” for beating ANY difficult
creature. Keep around a “pet” creature such as
a spider or snake. When you become very strong these
lesser creatures can’t hurt you and you can rest
even while they are attacking you. All you have to
do is sit next to your pet and rest. Jump over next
to the wizard, pound a few times and jump back next
to your pet. This way you don’t have to waist energy
running away from the wizard.

Another trick is that all creatures except wizard and
scorpion will pick up anything that you drop on the
floor before they start their attack. You can drop
your burnt torches, extra swords, etc. to the ground
when you see a large creature approaching. Pound away
while they pick your stuff up. Whey they die they’ll
drop it. Again, THIS DOESN’T WORK FOR THE SCORPION OR
WIZARD.